Date: Wednesday, October 25th
Time: 12:30PM-1:30PM ET
Join us on Wednesday, October 25th at the Berkman Klein Center for a deep dive with Kashmir Hill, tech reporter for the New York Times, on her new book Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy As We Know It. It’s the story of a small AI company that gave the power of facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses.
In conversation with Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Hill shares how one strange tip grew to fuel her book-length investigation into the ultimate surveillance tool. Your Face Belongs to Us is a gripping true story about the rise of a technological superpower that presents an urgent warning of what could happen when we rely on tech companies to be good actors without inquiry or regulation. From mainstream entertainment venue surveillance to alluring cell phone apps, Hill traces how tech companies slowly primed citizens to passively accept facial recognition tech that can easily be used–and abused–for social control.
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